Research on the Effects of Yoga on Children in School Settings
Through years of yoga teaching, I have seen many examples of the powerful benefits of a regular yoga practice: from improvements in physical health like weight loss and improved range of motion to shifts in perspective that bring about greater levels of well-being and, at times, lifestyle changes. In order to see these benefits more clearly and to communicate them effectively to others, I got involved in researching the effects of yoga on children in school settings.
These studies have been conducted under the supervision of two principal investigators, Naomi Steiner, MD at Tufts- NE Medical and Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. With Naomi Steiner, I taught Boston elementary school students with ADHD and autism-spectrum challenges for two years. With Sat Bir Khalsa, I worked as a research coordinator, an early developer of curriculum and as the lead yoga teacher for the Boston based school in Kripalu Yoga Center's Yoga in Schools research project. Through the work with Sat Bir Khalsa, I became part of Kripalu's Institute for Extraordinary Living, an association pairing practitioners and researchers.
Publication: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu
